Animal Activsts Launch "Partners in Pain" Campaign Against BofA for
their relationship with Huntingdon life Sciences financiers Stephens Inc.

(Charlotte, North Carolina) Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) will kick off
its campaign targeting the Bank of America with demonstrations in at least 10 cities
across the country and a press conference/protest at their national headquarters in
Charlotte. The events will highlight BofA's business relationship with the controversial
investment firm, Stephens Inc., who bailed out the scandalous animal testing lab HLS, by
loaning them $33 million.

Animal rights activists in San Francisco plan to demonstrate their disgust with
Bank of America's unethical business venture by burning a giant BofA credit card in an
effigy (August 20th, 12 noon 1525 Market St.).

In front of the Bank of America's corporate HQ in Charlotte representatives from
this campaign will be on hand to talk about and answer questions regarding the horrors
that take place at Huntingdon Life Sciences and how Stephens and BofA are responsible
(August 20th, 11am at 100 S. Tryon St.). They will also demand a meeting with executives
who have ignored previous requests through the mail and by phone.

Meanwhile demonstrations will take place at Bank of America offices and branches
in Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, Salt Lake City, Houston, Sacramento and
Sonoma. Call Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty for more details on any of these events. The
day of action also coincides with the launch of a brand new website -
www.bankofamericakills.com - a parody of BofA's own site with information on their
relationship to Stephens and HLS.

"We warned Stephens in April that we were just getting started and now we're
taking on one of their most significant business allies" stated a SHAC spokesperson.
"Stephens' and Bank of America's responsibility for the deaths of 500 animals every
day will prove to be a public relations and financial disaster that they will live to
regret."

The Bank of America has their entire mutual fund program run through Stephens
creating a duplicitous and profitable business relationship. This venture provides the
Little Rock based Stephens with the capital and business credibility that has allowed it
to save from financial ruin the nightmarish animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences
(HLS).

HLS, based in the UK with two labs there and an additional lab located in East
Millstone, New Jersey, is one of the world's largest animal testing labs. HLS tests
agrochemical and pharmaceutical products on puppies, cats, monkeys, rabbits, and a number
of other animals killing roughly 180,000 a year. Activists internationally have committed
themselves to shutting down HLS after five undercover investigations have shown workers
punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a live monkey, transplanting a frozen
pig's heart into a baboon, falsifying scientific data, and violating procedures for animal
welfare.

"HLS is financially dead in the water. All they need is that one final kick
and our campaign against Stephens and the Bank of America will prove a fatal blow to the
failing laboratory."

Animal rights activists have made significant achievements against HLS in
convincing the world's biggest financial institutions to sever ties with the company. The
victories read like a laundry list of a who's who in the financial world, including
Merrill Lynch, Citibank, HSBC, the UK government, their stockbroker West LB Panmure, and
scores of others.

You can help us to close Huntingdon Life Sciences permanently! Contact the
following companies that invest in HLS and let them know you will not bank or invest in
their company and that by supporting HLS, they are investing in animal torture: